@conference {727,
	title = {Supporting small museums through social network semantic analysis (Greek title: Υποστήριξη μικρών μουσείων μέσω της σημασιολογικής ανάλυσης κοινωνικών δικτύων)},
	booktitle = {Proceedings of the 3nd Pan-Hellenic Conference on Digital Cultural Heritage-EuroMed 2019},
	year = {2019},
	abstract = {Greece has a significant historic, archaeological and cultural wealth, and a big number of museums and related venues. Some of them are big, both in size and resources -human as well as financial. Most venues however are small in size, are not connected with larger organizations, have constrained budgets and little or no permanent staff. In this paper, we focus on that particular category of museums. Many of these museums possess noteworthy collections, and it would be desirable if the general public could enjoy them. Unfortunately, in most cases, even the existence of the museums is not generally known, even to inhabitants of the cities at which the museums are located. The small number of visitors leads to confined revenues, and this in turn leads to a situation which is not financially viable. In order for a small museum to survive, its existence and value must be made known to the wide public. However, this is inhibited due to the lack of resources to finance advertising and the lack of specialized personnel. In this paper, we combine our experiences on small museums, which has been developed within the CrossCult H2020 project, with know-how on social network analysis which has been gained in the context of the PaloAnalytics national project, in order to offer viable solutions for promotion, which are tailored to the needs of small museums.},
	keywords = {semantic analysis, small-sized museums, Social Networks},
	author = {Manolis Wallace and Vassilis Poulopoulos and George Lepouras and Costas Vassilakis and Angeliki Antoniou}
}
@conference {724,
	title = {TripMentor: Challenges and prospects for culture and tourism in the Attica region (Greek title: {\textquotedblleft}TripMentor: προκλήσεις και προοπτικές για τον πολιτισμό και τον τουρισμό στην περιφέρεια Αττικής{\textquotedblleft})},
	booktitle = {Proceedings of the 3nd Pan-Hellenic Conference on Digital Cultural Heritage-EuroMed 2019},
	year = {2019},
	abstract = {This paper presents the TripMentor project which is related to the tourism and civilization in the region of Attica. The main goal of the project is the presentation, in two languages, of the rich cultural content of the region to the tourists, through an Internet-based environment and through mobile applications. The goal of the project is to guide the visitors through many possible alternative routes, which include points of interest, as well as enterprises with tourism-related offers, while at the same time attempts to combine these routes with cultural points of interest. The project interrelates information, venues and visitor profiles with an automated way, striving to offer a unique personalized experience, tailored to the needs and preferences of each user. The project challenges are mainly technical, since through the project procedures (a) information regarding the points of interest should be gathered in an automated fashion (b) information about events related to points of interest must be taken into account and (v) data related to users, and especially the user profiles must be discovered and exploited so that the available information can be synthesized into a unique experience. In this context, we present the project application domain and the related challenges.},
	keywords = {cultural information, culture, geospatial data, Social Networks, tourism, visitor profile},
	author = {Costas Vassilakis and Vassilis Poulopoulos and Manolis Wallace and Angeliki Antoniou and George Lepouras}
}
@article {vassilakis-snam-2017a,
	title = {Stimulation of reflection and discussion in museum visits through the use of social media},
	journal = {Social Network Analysis and Mining},
	volume = {7},
	number = {40},
	year = {2017},
	month = {12},
	pages = {1-12},
	publisher = {Springer-Verlag GmbH Austria},
	abstract = {In this paper, we examine how social media can be linked to cultural heritage and in particular how we can incorporate games, social networks, history reflection and culture. More specifically, we explore the following aspects: (a) how social media sites can be integrated into the museum user experience (b) how user interactions within the social media, both within the context of the museum experience and outside it, can be exploited to enhance the quality of recommendations made to the users, (c) how trending topics from social media can be used to link museum exhibits with today{\textquoteright}s topics of interest and (d) how multi-level related terms extraction from social media data can lead to proposals for reflections to users. The end goal is to provide increased stimuli for users to study exhibits deeper and reflect on them, as well as to trigger discussion between the users, thus maximizing the impact of a museum visit.},
	keywords = {big data, cognitive style, Communication, reflection, Social Networks, user profiling},
	doi = {10.1007/s13278-017-0460-3},
	url = {https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13278-017-0460-3},
	author = {Costas Vassilakis and Angela Antoniou and Giorgos Lepouras and Vassilis Poulopoulos and Manolis Wallace and Stavroula Bampatzia and Ioannis Bourlakos}
}
